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		<title>15,000 Daily wage-earners&#8217; jobs at stake as PEPCO decides to suspend supply to furnaces</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/at-least-15000-daily-wage-earners-jobs-at-stake-as-pepco-decides-to-suspend-supply-to-furnaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAHORE: At least 15,000 daily wage-earners will lose their jobs, following Pakistan Electric Power Company’s (PEPCO) decision to suspend supply to furnaces across the country, resulting in a loss of around Rs7.5 million per day to the economy, sources said. At present, around 150 furnaces, including 70 in LESCO, 10 in IESCO, 10 in PESCO, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/potential-to-generate-50000mw-electricity-from-thar-coal-field-for-800-years-dr-samar-mubarakmand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has the potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years while work is on to produce 100mw power from this field within next 15-18 months. This was said by Dr. Samar Mubarakmand, Member, Science &#38; Technology, Planning Commission while addressing business community at Islamabad Chamber of Commerce &#38; Industry. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistani expectations for civilian nuclear deal dampened by the United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: The United States wants Pakistan to address its immediate energy needs instead of pinning its hopes on a civilian nuclear deal similar to the one Washington has finalised with India. “We have started discussions on the civilian nuclear energy deal and we will continue them but Pakistan’s energy crisis needs immediate attention and for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loadshedding at its worst brings Pakistanis life to standstill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 05:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestatesmen.net/?p=15270</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[LAHORE: Loadshedding disrupted the life of millions of people from all strata of society and the last one week was truly gruesome across the country in general and in the provincial metropolis in particular. Students, patients, commuters, workers in public and private organisations, shop owners, industrialists badly suffered throughout the last week as the Pakistan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) decides to discourage subsidies</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/economic-coordination-committee-ecc-decides-to-discourage-subsidies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet decided on Tuesday to end the practice of allowing subsidies on import and export of essential commodities without examining financial implications and ground realities. The ECC meeting presided over by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani took the decision while discussing a proposal to offload wheat stocks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OGRA increases petroleum prices further while Oil prices fall in Asia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority has announced an increase in the price of petroleum products. According to the OGRA, petroleum prices are being increased due to rise in oil prices in the international market. The new increased prices will be implemented from Thursday and will remain effective for the month of April. According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power tariff raised by Rs1.02/ unit, adjustment for Feb to be made in March bills</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/power-tariff-raised-by-rs1-02-unit-adjustment-for-feb-to-be-made-in-march-bills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAHORE: NEPRA has raised the electricity tariff by Rs1.02 per unit with effect from February 1. The adjustment for the month of Feb]]></description>
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		<title>Small investors seek SECP help over Rs800bn losses in stock market crashes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: Tens of thousands of small investors, who lost more than Rs800 billion in stock market crashes over the past five years, have approached the policy board of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan for compensation and threatened to take the matter to the Supreme Court if the SECP fails to ensure justice to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton to decide Pak bank ex-president Hamesh Khan’s fate</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/hillary-clinton-to-decide-pak-bank-ex-president-hamesh-khan%e2%80%99s-fate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON: The former president of one of Pakistan’s major banks has given up his fight against extradition, clearing the way for his return home to face accusations that he stole $10.8 million from his bank. Hamesh Khan’s extradition is now in US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s hands after a federal judge in Alexandria concluded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan sees a massive 36.3 per cent rise in inflation</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/pakistan-sees-a-massive-36-3-per-cent-rise-in-inflation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestatesmen.net/?p=13237</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: The country has seen a massive 36.3 per cent inflation since the present government came to power in 2008, with prices of two basic commodities, wheat flour and sugar, rising by 83 and 168 per cent, respectively. According to official figures, the price of flour which was Rs16.41 per kg on Feb 21, 2008, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oil crisis awaits as PSO faces default for providing cheap fuel to US-led NATO froces in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/oil-crisis-in-waiting-as-pso-faces-default-for-providing-cheap-fuel-to-us-led-nato-froces-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: With its receivables rising beyond Rs105 billion, Pakistan State Oil (PSO) needs at least Rs57 billion between now and April 28 to avoid default on international payments for oil imports and ensure smooth oil supplies in the country. “We have been forced to cut down oil imports and are inviting much lower tenders than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight powerful cartels refuse to cough up Rs 7 billion in fines and penalties</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestatesmen.net/?p=13197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: The top guns of the PPP government have made a confession before the National Assembly Secretariat about their failure to recover a mind boggling Rs 7 billion in fines and penalties from eight powerful cartels after 50 sugar barons, 20 cement tycoons, eight banks, five cellular phone companies, energy tycoons and stock exchanges of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Security spending pushes up budget deficit by 62pc</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: Marked by over Rs93 billion higher grants for security-related spending, Pakistan’s current expenditure rose by more than 15 per cent and the budget deficit by about 62 per cent during the first half of the current fiscal year. According to provisional data on half-yearly (July-Dec) budgetary operations released by the finance ministry, the government’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan loses $400m in reimbursement claims under CSF to ‘accountability’</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/pakistan-loses-400m-in-reimbursement-claims-under-csf-to-%e2%80%98enhanced-oversight-accountability%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestatesmen.net/?p=12409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: Over $400 million in reimbursement claims by Pakistan under Coalition Support Fund (CSF) for 2008 have been rejected by the United States because of new guidelines requiring ‘enhanced oversight and accountability’. Total claims for 2008 were $1.4 billion, but Pakistan got $997 million in reimbursement, whereas the remaining claims were disallowed on grounds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama administration forwards $1.45bn aid for Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestatesmen.net/?p=12095</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON: The Obama administration sent lawmakers a plan for $1.45 billion in aid for Pakistan this year, funding water, energy and other projects as well as a media campaign to counter extremist views. The 2010 spending plan, obtained by Reuters, was sent to lawmakers late on Thursday as part of the US administration’s obligation to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton urges rich Pakistanis to pay more tax!</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/hillary-clinton-urges-rich-pakistanis-to-pay-more-tax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged wealthy Pakistanis to pay a larger share of taxes to reduce their country’s dependence on foreign aid. In a testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the top US diplomat reminded rich Pakistanis that they had a duty to enable their government to fund schools and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First RDF plant abandoned as investors flee Pakistan amid terrorism wave</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAHORE: The City District Government, Lahore, has abandoned work on first-of-its-kind Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) plant in the provincial capital as the majority of foreign investors have left the country due to the current wave of terrorism. Sources said the project, which was devised one-and-a-half years back, was one of the CDGL’s mega projects and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Per cent capital gains tax on stock trading from July 1, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: The capital gains tax on stock trading would be levied from July 1 at 10 per cent for holding of less than six months and at 7.5 per cent where an investor retains securities beyond six months and up to a year. The tax is to be applicable on the purchase of shares after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin resigns from post as foretold</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: Pakistani Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin said on Tuesday he was stepping down to focus on his private business interests. Tarin&#8217;s resignation (as aleady reported earlier) is not expected to destabilise the government but international donors will be keen to see a respected minister appointed in his place. Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani accepted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin is leaving: PM Gilani confirms despite Tarin&#8217;s denial</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAHORE: Hamara to wazir-e-khazana ja raha hay (Our finance minister is leaving), Prime Minister Gilani was caught telling former finance minister Ishaq Dar, moments before the start of Monday’s press conference after his meeting with PML-N leaders. Perhaps not realising that at least one among the array of microphones on the table in front of [...]]]></description>
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